chewed my lips subconsciously, feeling awkward under her stare.

I recollected myself and replied to Ashton, “I’ll blow-dry it in a bit.” I usually avoided the hairdryer except during winter, as it was bad for my hair quality.

Ashton knitted his brows as he stared at me somewhat sternly. Then, he turned to Rachel and said, “Put the Marketing Department in charge of promoting the AI. You can settle the rest with Joseph.”

Rachel frowned as she took a covert glance at me. “Mr. Fuller, we need you to review all these materials personally before we can—”

“You may leave now,” Ashton cut her off before looking at me out of the corner of his eye. He waved me over. “Come here!”

I walked towards him. Rachel glared at me darkly, probably angered by my distraction.

She left in a fit of irritation.

Ashton embraced me as he coaxed, “If you don’t blow-dry your hair, you’ll catch a cold.”

As he was talking, he took the towel in my hand and began patting my hair dry.

I nodded in response and pretended to look at my nails. Hmm, they’re getting a bit long. I should cut them soon.

His gentle stare was starting to burn a hole in the side of my head. I turned to face him and his magnetic gaze.

“Is there something on my face?” Instinctively, I lifted my hand towards my face. Rubbing at the possibly non-existent stains, my uncertainty grew.

He burst into laughter as a hint of humor flashed across his eyes.

be holding back his laughter as

I asked, “Are we having lunch

you’d

“Anything’s fine!”

he didn’t

reminders on the meeting with the people from Granatano, Ashton made sure to dry my

a hint of Joseph’s anxiety. Instead, he had Joseph bring over a

both a sense of helplessness

the office to my shock. I addressed her, “He has gone for

out before placing some

was in a rush to leave. Instead, she stopped

her directly. “Ms. Zimmer, do you have something

me. She only spoke once we were eye-to-eye. “Mr. Fuller’s been getting home late

raised my brows at

tossed out her

speak directly, you know.” I wasn’t well-versed in the art of

Sometimes we’re so busy we even forget to take dinner. Luckily Mr. Campbell is always so attentive and comes by to remind us

in a far too different world from him. He

lipstick mark on the collar of Ashton’s shirt

and merely replied indifferently, “I’ve always believed that courtesy and elegance are values that every mother passes down

at me, infuriated by the blow

and I share the same thoughts

scrunched her brows in

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